NO, you orange monster, it's not "America love it or Leave it." It's "America change it! Or lose it!

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Wednesday July 17, 2019 · 12:10 PM PDT

2019/07/17 · 12:10

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These republicans are such lazy, uncreative old farts — even the young ones— and the orange menace is showing his age with this latest tired old “America, love or leave it” slogan. Good lord, I’m going to have to dig out my bell bottoms, love beads, leather fringe jacket and Easy Rider album if this continues. ( On the other hand that might not be such a bad idea, my kids would have a field day)

Conservatives have been gleefully hippy punching with this trope for over fifty years. Earnest Tubb even wrote and performed a song with the same title. (Google it if you want to see a really sorry-ass piece of song writing. I refuse to link it.) I see the talking heads on Fox news are using it. This morning a right wing pastor was on MSNBC was using it, and when I switched to CNN there was a republican congressman telling fellow Americans to leave the country if they don’t like whats pouring out of Trumps racist mouth.

Well you know what, that slogan didn’t stop us hippies from taking to the streets and fighting against Nixon and the Vietnam war in 1968 and it won't — by god— stop us now. We will fight this Mother F**king corrupt son of bitch and his right wing cronies at every turn until we have our country back.

AMERICA—change it! Or lose it!

Another good sized earthquake just hit Los Angeles...

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Friday July 05, 2019 · 8:30 PM PDT

2019/07/05 · 20:30

We just had another good sized earthquake in the Los Angels Area….I’m in the West San Fernando Valley and this one was very strong and lasted a loooog time.

7.1 magnitude, but not nearly as violent as the Northridge Eq was.

Epicenter 11 miles from Ridgequest.

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Monday February 18, 2019 · 4:10 PM PST

2019/02/18 · 16:10

Today on the Nicole Wallace show, Jeremy Bash hilariously referred to Trump as Humpty Trumpty. Sometimes, a put down is just too perfect. It got my creative writing juices flowing so here goes:

Humpty Trumpty

Humpty Trumpty screamed “build a wall!”

‘Cause people of color—he detested them all.

Humpty Trumpty, bellowed, then raged

As mothers and children were tortured and caged.

Humpty Trumpty —the sleazy grease ball

Was despised by the people, those giant or small.

Humpty Trumpty, fought tooth and nail

He screeched at the press but couldn’t prevail

Humpty Trumpty sat on his wall

Humpty Trumpty had a great fall

And all the Queen’s horses and all the Queens’s men

Refused to put Trumpty together again.

Anybody else wanna play?

Facebook just suspended Cambridge Analytica--about damn time.

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Friday March 16, 2018 · 6:37 PM PDT

2018/03/16 · 18:37

Facebook has just announced they are suspending Cambridge Analytica, the sleazy internet data firm tied to the Trump Campaign .

We Maintain Strict Standards and Policies

Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do, and we require the same from people who operate apps on Facebook. In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.

Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app. His app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.” Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it.

Although Kogan gained access to this information in a legitimate way and through the proper channels that governed all developers on Facebook at that time, he did not subsequently abide by our rules. By passing information on to a third party, including SCL/Cambridge Analytica and Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, he violated our platform policies. When we learned of this violation in 2015, we removed his app from Facebook and demanded certifications from Kogan and all parties he had given data to that the information had been destroyed. Cambridge Analytica, Kogan and Wylie all certified to us that they destroyed the data.

Imagine the crap Mueller has on them. Here’s to Brad Parscale and the Mercers heading to the clink.

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Tuesday January 30, 2018 · 5:41 PM PST

2018/01/30 · 17:41

Looks like dumb shit speech writer Stephan Miller is pilfering democratic ideas again. NBC News is reporting that Donnie’s catch phrase for the night is going to be the “New American Moment”. If he does, he’ll just be copying the phrase first used by Hillary in 2010

Clinton, whom Trump defeated in the 2016 presidential election, used the phrase in a 2010 speech to herald the foreign policy she was pursuing on behalf of President Barack Obama as secretary of state.

Lazy, sad….

Good News. Robert Mueller prepares to kick a**. Trump's week just got a whole lot worse.

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Friday June 09, 2017 · 5:24 PM PDT

2017/06/09 · 17:24

Today, a short while after Donald J. Trump finished his rose garden press conference wherein he enthusiastically trashed James Comey and proclaimed himself the most honest-est President in the whole wide world, a small bit of good news came across the news wires: Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just appointed Michael Dreeben III to his investigative staff

Michael Dreeben is the Deputy Solicitor General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice criminal docket before the United States Supreme Court. He has argued before the Supreme Court more than 100 times and is recognized as an expert in U.S. criminal law. (WIkipedia ) By all accounts he is a brilliant lawyer with an encyclopedic knowledge of criminal law.

In 2010 Michael Dreeben gave a lecture at Duke University Law School --his Alma Mater—and was was introduced thusly by Prof. Neil Siegel :

“...Michael Dreeben is one of this law school's most distinguished graduates. He is the Criminal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States in which he helps to supervise the government's litigation in criminal cases in the federal courts, as well as in the U.S. Supreme Court. I had the honor of working for Michael for a year at the office of the Office of the Solicitor General and it was apparent to me very quickly that not all advocates are all similarly situated with respect to the degree of interest they trigger in the justices. The advocacy is of uneven quality some are better at it then others, and what struck me about Michael’s arguments, is not just the poise and confidence --and often lack of notes--but the frequency with which each of the Justices would sit forward inon their chairs as he spoke.They were intensely interested in what he had to tell them. He has unmatched credibility before the court and I think unmatched knowledge and intelligence about what the goverment’s interests in criminal litigation are—and it shows. He is truly one of the very best Supreme Court Advocates in our country, in our constitutional system…..

So Mueller is anticipating the arguments before the Supremes , and he is placing those arguments in the hands of one of the most knowledgeable, experienced, and respected Supreme Court advocates in the country.

I hope Donald and his little piss-ant real estate lawyer shit their pants at the news. They have no idea what they're in for.

Duke lecture here...he's a badass…

750,000 turn out for Women's March Los Angeles

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Saturday January 21, 2017 · 1:51 PM PST

2017/01/21 · 13:51

ABC7 news in Los Angeles is reporting that 750,000 attend Women's March Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that this is the largest MARCH IN OVER A DECADE. This march was a massive, wonderful event, with all kinds of like minded folks, and many families with their children. Transit systems have been jammed before and after the even the event. I would not be surprised if these numbers get revised upwards. I am absolutely thrilled that L.A. turned out.

How Trump campaign rigged online polls post-debate

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Tuesday September 27, 2016 · 3:24 PM PDT

2016/09/27 · 15:24

The Daily Dot has a great article up about how the Trumpkins used 4chan and Reddit to manipulate online polls after the debate to make the public believe he won the debate. We know better. Go read it here .

Att: Young Adults this info is for you

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Tuesday October 01, 2013 · 1:59 PM PDT

2013/10/01 · 13:59

A friend asked me to help her find some information about the ACA and kids who have graduated from college.

I found this great resource at the Department of Labor that hopefully answers some questions for you:Young adults and the ACA

A message to Papa John's CEO from his customers

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Sunday November 11, 2012 · 12:14 PM PST

2012/11/11 · 12:14

(With a hat tip to Quarkstomper for his/ her informative diary here )

Dear Pizza CEO,
Thank-you for for giving the neighborhood teenagers and young people who work for you, their first lesson in what it means to be a corporate asshole. Wow, John, nothing like taking revenge against those younger and weaker. What a guy. Not to worry, I'm sure our kids will be happy to find work at a neighborhood pizza joint where there won't be treated like dirt. As a matter of fact, maybe they'll even be inspired to open up their own food trucks or pizza joints, just so they can put jerks like you out of business.

As for moms like me--you know the ones whose kids and family members you "employ"-- us gals who run the PTA's, sports programs, and school activities where they often buy tons of your cheap, crappy pizza. We've decided we'll be buying our pizza somewhere else. Somewhere, where they acutually give a shit about our kids and neighborhoods.

Love and toodles,
Your ex-customer mom

Why is the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) contacting me?

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Saturday October 01, 2011 · 1:52 PM PDT

2011/10/01 · 13:52

I've been receiving phone calls from the NRSC for a couple of weeks now. They've been calling me two to three times a day for about a month. The funny thing is, is that I've been ignoring them because I thought it was a bill collector. (Being unemployed is such FUN!)

Caller I.D. shows only NRSC and the number 202 367-9239. Imagine my surprise when the older sounding woman on the other end of the line told me she was from the National ~~Replican't~~ ~~Repliwon't~~ Republican Senatorial Campaign. Me? Me? Me, a lifelong progressive who's voted Democratic in every election for the last thirty years. Naturally, I gave her an earful about how republicans and their teabaggin' ilk are ruining the country, but seriously, WTF?

I traced back the number and it led me to this website for "Strategic Fundraising" here (or not!). Are repubs really that desperate for money that they're contacting Dems....or are they up to no good with some other scheme.

I notice that according to their little press release:

Strategic first opened the doors to its Oshkosh call center in August 2005 with 44 calling seats, finishing the year with $1.75 million raised on behalf of the company’s clients. The site expanded to 58 seats in 2007, 72 seats in 2008, and 88 seats in 2009. Over that time company revenue and fundraising totals for clients increased dramatically as well, with funds raised in 2010 projected to top $20 million.

Wow, small little company goes from 1.75 million raised, to $20 million in five or six years. Smells like Koch brothers to me and somebody's wasting somebody else's money. Anyone else getting these calls?

The Palinwocky

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Monday July 27, 2009 · 8:47 AM PDT

2009/07/27 · 08:47

Look, this is my first diary, I know I'm not following the three paragraph intro rule, but I had to get this off my chest...

Good god, what a mess of a "speech" Palin gave yesterday. Every time she gives one of her "I don't need no stinkin' " TelePrompter homilies, it sounds like she's hit the hookah pipe one too many times. For months, I've been trying to figure out why her speeches, though mangled, sounded familiar. Then yesterday, as I was working on lesson plans, I re-read some Lewis Carroll...bingo! And so with apologies to the man himself herewith find:

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